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[quote=Anonymous]You should pay between $20 and $25 per hour and you should guarantee hours.

$20 an hour is pretty typical for light housekeeping like laundry, tidying up, food prep.  Plenty of students, stay home moms, and hard-working women without employment papers will take jobs like that.

Market rates for heavy cleaning are more than $20 an hour, because service provider expectations are influenced by the rates that homeowners typically pay to cleaning services ($25-30 an hour) who then cover insurance, overhead, employment taxes, etc. out of that rate before paying the worker $15.  If you are employing this person directly, paying employment taxes, and providing the security of guaranteed hours and paid vacation, $20 is reasonable.  That's more than what undocumented employees and non-English speakers get paid by most services.  You may need to convince the employee that you can't pay what the services typically charge homeowners because you will be responsible for worker's compensation insurance, a holiday bonus, pay during your vacation, employment taxes, etc.[/quote]

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